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He had been very solitary all day, and even the company of the old road-sweeper was welcome. "If we don't get some drying days soon, it'll be bad for all of us, won't it, Reuben?" "Aye, it's a bit clashy," said the man, with stolidity, stopping to spit into his hands a moment, before resuming his work. The mildness of the adjective brought another half-smile to Helbeck's dark face.
A glance at the programme was enough to show the lover of airs of the trashy, clashy order that this was no place for him. Most of the items were serious. When it was thought necessary to introduce a lighter touch, some staidly rollicking number was inserted, some song that was saved in spite of a catchy tune by a halo of antiquity.
Melrose nodded, and Thyrza mounted a chair, and proceeded to put up the curtains, turning an observant eye now and then on the thin-faced lady sitting on the sofa, her long fingers clasped round her knees, and her eyes so large and staring as to be rather ugly than beautiful in Thyrza's opinion wandering absently round the room. "It's a clashy day," Thyrza ventured at last.
What d' yo know about it? Yo know nowt, Margaret. When did yo iver heer o' the Moscow campaign? Let me be, woan't yo? But perceiving that he would not be quieted, she turned him on his pillows, so that he could see the boy at his ease. 'He's bin out i' th' wet, 'Lias dear, has Davy, she said; 'and it's nobbut a clashy night. We mun gie him summat hot, and a place to sleep in.
Below it, some scattered woods, inky black, bent under the storm, and the crash and darkness of the lower air threw into clear relief the pallid splendour of the mountain-top. Boden stood enthralled, when a voice said at his elbow: "Yo're oot on a clashy night, Muster Boden!" He turned. Beside him stood the fugitive! grinning weakly. Boden beheld a tottering and ghastly figure.
It was a brassy, clashy rendering of a ribald one-step, enough to choke the eloquence of the most ardent. Couples were dipping and swaying and bumping into one another as far as the eye could reach; while just behind him two waiters had halted in order to thrash out one of those voluble arguments in which waiters love to indulge.
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